Kevin Powell’s 9th Annual Holiday Party and Clothing Drive

In the spirit of alms and giving that accompanies the anniversary season, acclaimed writer, activist, pop ability aficionado, and one of the nation’s arch choir of his generation, Kevin Powell, makes his acknowledgment to Tribeca Cinemas, presenting his 9th Annual Holiday Party and Clothing Drive on Friday December 11th, 2009. Admission is chargeless with the donation of new or acclimated apple-pie clothes, which will account the Safe Horizon Streetwork Project, a affairs that assists about 10,000 NYC abandoned humans anniversary year with acting and abiding apartment and added basic essentials.

Kevin Powell’s Holiday Party and Clothing Drive has become one of the a lot of advancing and acknowledged alms contest of the division in New York City and a abundant archetype of Powell’s drive to activate the association for a bounded accommodating cause. Making its acknowledgment to the astounding and ample venue, Powell has abounding treats in abundance for his guests. From a appropriate VIP screening of Still Bill documentary based on the activity and music of Bill Withers (“Lean on Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine”) above-mentioned the capital event, to 12 abbreviate films, a ball allowance abounding of NYC’s best up and advancing comics, an acoustic lounge with over twenty abide performances additional a jam session, abide art, a appearance chapter presented by the BK Style Foundation, a NY Post “Meat Market” Blind date event, a tech lounge for X-BOX gaming and abide blogging and what affair would be complete after a lounge for dancing-with music by the Legendary Celebrity DJ and Philanthropist Beverly Bond as able-bodied as DJ’s Reborn and Misdemeanor; this artlessly a have to appear event.

Sponsors and ally for this year’s accident cover Anheuser-Busch, smartwater, The New York Post, The FADER magazine, 92.3 NOW-FM, Microsoft, Karen's Body Beautiful, Guitar Center, Planet Muzic, Escallier Events, Black Girls Rock!, Omerge Alliances, The Wall Street Alphas Charitable Foundation, Buzz International Group, AKILA WORKSONGS, LLC, Art Battles address of The SOLO Foundation and The BK Style Foundation.

About Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell, a adept citizen of Brooklyn, is a writer, activist, multimedia personality, and accessible speaker. He is the columnist or editor of 10 books, the a lot of contempo absolution accepting Open Letters to America; and he was a Democratic applicant in the 2008 Congressional primary in Brooklyn, New York. Kevin was aswell a founding agents affiliate at Vibe annual area he interviewed, a allotment of abounding others, the backward Tupac Shakur on several occasions. In addition, he was a casting affiliate on the aboriginal division of MTV’s “The Real World: New York City.” On his activity work, Kevin Powell says simply, “My life-calling is to be a assistant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, claimed achievements, and all that beggarly actual little to me if affliction and adversity are still absolute on this planet. I am absorbed in the blank acceptable powerful.
About Safe Horizon Streetwork Project: The Streetwork Project is committed to extensive out to the abandoned and blank adolescence of New York City, alms them acquittal from hunger, cold, bareness and abhorrence and the befalling to accost for themselves a faculty of address and self-worth. Our ambition is to extend ourselves to these adolescent humans through our attendance on the streets, through the casework we accommodate and through the adulation we are accommodating to express. With every bag lunch, medical appointment, referral, condom and accumulation we offer, we acquaint to our audience our affair for their lives and our acceptance in their potential. Our mission is to act as a agitator for their self-empowerment." For added advice appointment http://www.safehorizon.org .